I have this new RHE4 server from dell and they have LVM setup on it. it
has an 80gb drive, but the setup has about 50GB of unused space. I wanted
to grow the /home partition to use that 50 GB. I used lvextend, but it
didn't seem to work. below is my work. any ideas, linux lvm gurus?
mrb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
4.0G 198M 3.6G 6% /
/dev/sda3 190M 15M 166M 8% /boot
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
7.9G 6.0G 1.6G 80% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
4.0G 188M 3.6G 5% /var
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 530 4200997+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 * 531 555 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 556 9726 73666057+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 556 9726 73666026 8e Linux LVM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 8
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 6
Open LV 6
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 74.25 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 2376
Alloc PE / Size 832 / 26.00 GB
Free PE / Size 1544 / 48.25 GB
VG UUID VXDY60-TBWW-Z7kT-AG5C-ObI1-XqaR-SVnuEC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 on /var type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# lvextend -l+1544 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol05
Extending logical volume LogVol05 to 52.25 GB
Logical volume LogVol05 successfully resized
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
4.0G 198M 3.6G 6% /
/dev/sda3 190M 15M 166M 8% /boot
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
7.9G 6.0G 1.6G 80% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
4.0G 188M 3.6G 5% /var
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